Yshani Perinpanayagam

Yshani is a pianist, composer and music director from London, specialising in not specialising.

As a relatively new composer, her sound is currently an ever-evolving mash-up of her varied musical tastes and personal worlds; this currently includes elements of contemporary classical music, dirty grooves, Sri Lankan parents, game and play, melancholy, and activism.

Patrons supporting Yshani will be invited to join her journey as she continues to find her feet as a composer as she shares drafts of new works, personal revelations about her process, improvised experimentations on rough-and-ready material etc., as well as further insight into her performing career.

Listen: See How They Run; – Workshop performance by Ligeti Quartet

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Yshani's Updates

🔒 Premiere Night: Mini-Update

Feeling lots of big feelings as a composer and as a human ahead of the premiere of my Music for

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🔒 A little squashed, a little bruised.

Is this a diary entry? Is this a big life, self and career realisation? I can’t see the wood for the trees at t...

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🔒 Lunchtime piano impro TOMORROW!

From words and ideas you put in the text chat I’ll improvise mini pieces at my piano! TOMORROW (20/02/23) from

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🔒 Composer Growth? A Rambling

This month has been really revealing for me in terms of how my artistic intersectionality impacts me as specifically a

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🔒 An important memory

Doing my tax return and going through old diaries lets me relive – whether I want to or not – my past mon...

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🔒 The pianist meets the composer?

I’ve loved music directing / performing in Ruination at Royal Opera House. In addition, I really fell in love with

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🔒 Mini-update a.k.a. A teenage composer in a grown-u...

More on that string trio… Shh! Don’t tell anyone 😇🤫

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🔒 The Music Patron Q&A

A series of interviews with our Music Patron composers talking about their musical inspirations and what life as a co...

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🔒 The earliest of drafts!

Who knows if this will survive the night?! I’ve been asked to write a string trio for a concert next

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🔒 It’s a premiere night 🤩

About to make my way to the premiere of a song I wrote with Laura Attridge; here’s a little about

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🔒 Supersonic Mirth 🎄

I saw a call-out for Christmas Carols and figured it presented me with a good excuse to write another one.

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🔒 Replugging in my creativity

Returning to London having conducted and arranged a baroque opera left me quite out of touch with the boundary-free s...

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🔒 I’m back from the depths of Arrangerland (so...

Just me chatting to the camera in a heat wave about everything I’ve been up to preparing for opening our produc...

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🔒 Bits of Me: Video 1

The first in a series of videos where I introduce myself to you properly. Here is a behind the scenes video of me and...

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🔒 There she is!

She’s been opening a show! Here’s a sneak peak of what I’ve been up to, MDing Passion by Sondheim i...

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🔒 Who do you think I am?

A little introduction to how I’d like us to write a little piece together…

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🔒 Composer Commentary: i only bite because you make ...

Me chatting away about how and why my piece for piano synchronised to a perfect game of snake came into

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🔒 New Patrons – Thank You…and Welcome!

Thank you so much for your support. Here’s a little more on about how I am hoping to use this

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